Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter at gmail.com> wrote:
To reduce the number of reserved key words, the following key words
are deprecated, and no longer have special meanings defined by BCP
14:
REQUIRED, SHALL, SHALL NOT, RECOMMENDED, NOT RECOMMENDED, OPTIONAL
I will be glad to see the back of SHALL, but I object to deprecating
the adjectives. They are useful - indeed, sometimes required - for
the construction of readable sentences and, for example, tables of
RECOMMENDED and OPTIONAL values.
+1 to keeping the adjectives. They are indeed helpful or even necessary
in crafting readable prose.
Mike Heard